Friday, March 29, 2019

LET’S TALK ABOUT MAN, GOD, AND THE UNIVERSE

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

LET’S TALK ABOUT MAN, GOD, AND THE UNIVERSE

Let me start off by telling you right off the bat that man doesn’t know a damn thing about God. That’s why we speak of “having faith”. We don’t have to have “faith” in God. We have an entire universe to attest to God's existence. So when we speak of faith, we’re not talking about having faith in God, but having faith in what some delusional lunatic is TELLING us about God. God gave us a mind. It was man who gave us the Bible.
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I was raised in the church, and I’m a firm believer in God. I pray before every meal, and every night before I go to bed. But I do that for ME, and the comfort that it brings ME, not because God demands it. So I’ve got to be honest – I can’t stand preachers. The reason for that is simple - I consider preachers to be arrogant, self-absorbed lunatics who have deluded themselves into thinking they’re superior to others.
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Their attitude is, you’re not good enough for God to speak to directly, "so he anointed me to tell you what’s on his mind." But I have a number of immediate problems with that. First, there are over 4200 different religions on Earth, so why is God telling everyone something different? Secondly, a loving God would never curse man with anything that is at the very root of all the hatred, bigotry, murder, and mayhem on Earth. Third, if God had anything to do with man’s religion, there’d only be one.
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In addition, the mere fact that over 81% of all White Evangelicals support the evil machinations of the corrupt, ignorant, and inept Donald Trump is clear evidence that their "God" only tells them what they want to hear - and more often than not, what they want to hear is why they should hate other men who don't look, think, and act like themselves. Yeah, they're TOLD that they should love thy neighbor, but the underlying message is always about why their neighbor is evil, and not approved of by God. Think about that, and also the fact that the Nazis were "Christians".

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So people really need to wake up. God communicates with man through common sense, not by trying to convince us to believe in walking dead men and talking snakes. God has shown us through what he has DONE that snakes don't talk and dead men don't walk. So what we call "faith" is faith in MAN, and in what man TELLS us, not faith in God, and what he has SHOWN us.
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God doesn't do magic tricks for man. You either believe in him or you don't. God doesn't care what you believe. Why should he? God doesn't need it. The need for praise is a shallow-minded ego trip that smacks of the manipulation of man. God doesn't have anything to gain by what you believe, but man does. Only weak-minded Trumplodyte-like men crave your worship, not God. Would you tap dance in front of your toilet to try to impress the germs under your toilet seat to worship you? Of course not. That would be stupid, and God's not stupid. It's only MAN who has an interest in influencing our thinking through putting on a magic show, because that’s the only way he can manipulate us, by convincing idiots that he speaks for God. So man's not trying to get you to worship God, he's actually trying to get you to worship HIM. That's how he manages to control other human beings to promote his interest.

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So for exactly those reasons I have a very simple response to these self-proclaimed Godologists, and that's, “Who the hell do you think you are, you delusional lunatic?” Then, in spite of all the Hell and brimstone they preach from the pulpit, my response renders them completely speechless, because I strip them of all of their "Godly" vestments and holy pretenses. Then I go on to repeat my question again. "Who the hell are you!!!? - and how did God choose you to be of such superior character that he needs you to communicate for him? It certainly couldn't be due to your intelligence, because if you think I'm a big enough fool to believe you speak for God, you don't have any. And one other thing - why can’t God speak to me directly like he’s supposedly speaking to you? You can't answer that, can you? Well, I can. He does speak to me. He gave me a conscience, so whenever I decide to do anything un-Godly, he tells me immediately.
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So I don't have any more need for a book written by man to tell me how to live my life than a bird needs a calendar and a compass to know when to fly South in the winter. What man so solemnly refer to as "The Holy Scriptures", are nothing more than the superstitious rantings of 3000-year-old dead men. They were written by the Pat Robertsons and T.D. Jakes of their time. So, get your mindless, Voodoo-worshiping ass out of my face - and the next time you have lunch with God, you tell him what I told you." 

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You see, I feel perfectly free to challenge organized religion in complete comfort, because I'm not challenging God, I’m challenging the silliness of man. So when he asks me, “Where’s your faith?”, my response is, I’m not required to have faith in one word you say. Because again, it all boils down to what you say, as opposed to What God's done - and what God has DONE, is blessed me with a mind for the expressed purpose of challenging your silliness.
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When we place the universe in perspective, and think of the actual enormity of God, it shows us just how silly man's little provincial beliefs really are. Our galaxy alone has over 200 billion stars, and the Sun is only one of them. It takes the Sun, along with Earth, and it’s other 8 hitchhikers, traveling at 828,000 mph 230 million years to orbit around our galaxy just one time.  Yet, our solar system, with its 9 planets, is only a microscopic dust particle in our galaxy, and our galaxy itself, in terms of the universe, is nothing more than a microscopic dust particle in space.
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To make sense of the distances we’re talking about, on January 19, 2006 we launched the space probe, New Horizon, for the planet Pluto in our own solar system. It was the Fastest man-made object ever launched from Earth.  It sped through space at 36,400 mph. That’s 24 times faster than an AK 47 military rifle bullet. Yet it took New Horizon until July 14, 2015 (9 years, 6 months) to reach Pluto.
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Thus, if the Earth was your house in Los Angeles, Pluto would be a flea in San Diego, and Alpha Centauri, the closest neighboring star to the Sun, would be an elephant in China - and that's just within our galaxy. There are over 200 billion stars, equally as far away from one another, in just our galaxy alone, and there are more galaxies in the universe than there are grains of sand on every beach, every desert, and every ocean floor on the planet Earth – and that’s just in the observable universe that's still expanding in every direction at the speed of light (186,282 miles per second). Yet, man thinks he can tell other men about God!!!?
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Man is way too full of himself.  In terms of the universe, man is trillions of times less significant than a colony of germs under a toilet seat in Uzbekistan. It’s only man’s incredible arrogance that causes him to think that we’re important enough for God to even remember who we are. After all, does God remember every germ that he created?  So every time I hear a preacher preaching “the gospel” I have to laugh. I ask myself, "Will you listen to this fool! I wonder does he actually believe this nonsense!!!?"

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Do you believe that God sent Jesus to all the hundreds of trillions of worlds in the universe? Or do you believe that we're so special that we're the
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only speck of dust in the universe with life on it? Both assumptions are ridiculous. It may seem like we're alone, but the only reason we don’t see other beings is because even if they lived right next door to us (which they do), even traveling at the speed of light, it would take them 137 thousand years to get here, because the next closest star to the Sun, Alpha Centauri, is over 24 trillion miles away.  So, think about that – in order to just drop in for a cup of coffee they would have had to leave home 135 thousand years before Jesus was born, and they won't get here for another 133 thousand years - and again, that’s just our closest neighbor!
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So, whenever I think about the universe that God has created, it helps me to place the concept of God in perspective. The limited intellect of man is much too puny to even conceive of the nature of God, and much less, know what's on his mind - that explains atheism. But that alone gives me more than enough reason to worship him. I worship God for what he’s done, and what I can see, not because of the superstitious rantings of 3000-year-old dead men - and that's exactly who wrote the so-called "Scriptures". They were no closer to God than we are today. They were the Pat Robertsons of their time, and just as clueless. These same men claimed that the universe revolved around the Earth until Galileo proved them wrong - and then they placed him under arrest for educating them.
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Thus, for exactly that reason, I feel absolutely no obligation to force myself to believe in walking dead men or talking snakes, nor do I feel any obligation to get all dressed up every Sunday morning and pay to be screamed at for two hours. And there's another important benefit - I don't have to be bothered with Bible-thumping lunatics. 
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So, whenever I want to commune with God – and I do quite regularly - I simply pour myself a drink, sit out in my backyard, and gaze out at the night sky – and I can do that for free, except for the price of a shot of gin.
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Eric L. Wattree 
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does. 




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